Conservation: More focus on saving threatened wildlife

Tourism Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala (left), Ol Pejeta Conservancy CEO Richard Vigne and Laikipia Governor Ndiritu Muriithi, among other guests, after the burial of Sudan. [File]

In March, a dark cloud hung over the conservation world following the death of the only remaining male northern white rhino at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Nanyuki.

The death of the rhino, nicknamed Sudan, became a topic of discussion among conservationists and researchers across the world – a topic that also brought focus on Kenya as the home to the world’s remaining northern white rhinos.